I set up Linux from Scratch 7.6 with the kernel 3.18.7 on a Lenovo Yoga13.
However, udev does not load the rtl8723au driver needed to run its Wi-Fi card. I needed to compile the driver manually, and ...

I'm trying to install a Linux From Scratch system. I know LFS doesn't come with a package manager. I want to use pacman as my package manager. I googled bout it and found some links bt they are old, ...

I use Gentoo as my primary home Desktop OS. I have since ~2004. I appreciate the emerge command for managing a source based OS as well as it does. Every now and then I check on other distributions, ...

I've tried to compile Linux through Linux from scratch Version 7.5 and I can't compile some packages because as I realize and googled them, they have some bugs, for example I couldn't compile gcc 4.8. ...

I'm trying to build a Linux From Scratch system on my host Linux Mint machine. However, when I run the version-check.sh file, it returns that my system is missing libgmp.la, libmpfr.la, and libmpc.la, ...

I am using a host Ubuntu 14.04 system, and I am currently going through the Linux From Scratch guide here. At section 6.9, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/glibc.html, after ...

I'm trying to compile gcc with make install to a drive wich is an linux from scrach bulid to a directory called tools and it gives me this:
make[1]: Entering directory `/media/BOSS/sources/gcc-build'
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I'm going to build my own Linux from scratch, but I've got an error while running 'make' for binutils in chapter 5 I get some errors. The output of 'make' is here: http://pastebin.com/8aVz6jfd
There ...

The closest question I could find is this one, however it is still quite a bit different from what I am needing: GRUB fails to install
My specific setup and the steps I followed to produce this
I am ...

I thought Linux from Scratch was a pretty cool tutorial, but I felt having to wait for everything to compile was a bit nerve-wreaking.
Is there a tutorial similar to LFS except pre-compiled binaries ...

Most of the live CD systems I have come across don't seem to have the LFS requirements pre-installed (i.e. everything on this list).
Are there any live CD systems that come with the required software ...

After having worked through Linux From Scratch, I get the eerie feeling that in practice, this is not how new distros are built.
How do I search for tools that other distributions are built with? Is ...

I decided that I want to learn more about Linux and try building LFS. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 as host system and Ubuntu uses dash and mawk by default. I've changed mawk to gawk, but considering that ...